“Casting Pearls” will be screened at the French International Trans Film Festival (Festival International de Films Trans de Paris). It plays at the Hotel Gondolin at 7:45 pm on June 11th, 2009. For more information, go to http://www.festivalidentit.org/
Friday 12 June 2009 19:45
Casting Pearls
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Deep Stealth Productions was pleased to present “Casting Pearls” at the Vinokino Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in Finland. It played with the Swedish film “The Perfect Man” directed by Maria
Deep Stealth Productions is pleased to have a number of projects featured in “transgender Stories,” a new Logo web destination. Check out real stories about real transpeople – their lives, relationships, struggles and triumphs in this collection of films, documentaries, and series.
Already included are:
Music Artists
- Katastrophe
- The Cliks
- Joshua Klipp
Real Momentum Documentary Series
- Southern Comfort
- No Dumb Questions
- Beautiful Daughters
- 100% Woman
- Gender Rebel
- Gender Redesigner
- Girl Inside
Trans Short Films
- Waiting for Yvette
- Casting Pearls
- She Kills He
- Moustache
- Give or Take an Inch
- Real Momentum Shorts: Transgression
Transamerican Love Story
Trans Interviews
- Bad Questions with Calpernia Addams
Check back for more throughout the year!
Transgender Stories at Logo Online
http://www.logoonline.com/video/franchise.jhtml?ctid=2173
“Casting Pearls” received a rave review from Washington, DC’s Metro Weekly as part of the Reel Affirmations film festival:
The gem of this collection is Casting Pearls (triangletriangletriangletriangletriangle), featuring actress Calpernia Addams (Transamerican Love Story) as she undergoes a series of auditions for roles, some humiliating, some moronic, none especially worthwhile. Brilliantly played by Addams directly into the camera, it is a terrifically funny jab at Hollywood stereotypes.
Deep Stealth Productions‘ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its Indianapolis premiere on November 14-16, 2008 as part of the Indianapolis LGBT film festival.
IUPUI Campus Center
420 University Blvd. (between Michigan and New York)
From the Frameline website:
Casting Pearls is a short comedic film which illustrates the difficulties transsexual women face in Hollywood via a hectic series of auditions endured by Cassandra, a transsexual actress (Calpernia Addams). Cassandra weathers the horrible, funny and cruel things said by various Hollywood professionals with plucky determination and professionalism, showing that decades of bias can’t hold back the real contributions of transgender people to the arts and media.
Dir: Andrea James, USA, 2007, English, 7min
The Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival is a benefit of the Indiana Youth Group, a nonprofit organization that offers support to LGBT youth in Indiana. For more information and tickets, please visit their website:
Deep Stealth Productions‘ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its Washington DC premiere on October 22, 2008 as part of Reel Affirmations 18: The nation’s LGBT film festival.
Funny Girl Wednesday
Wednesday 22 October @ 7pm Sixth and I Synagogue
http://reelaffirmations.bside.com/2008/films/funnygirlwednesday_reelaffirmations2008
Casting Pearls
Calpernia Addams, transsexual author, and star of Logo
Deep Stealth Productions‘ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its Copenhagen premiere on October 17, 2008 as part of the Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in Denmark.
Casting Pearls
Dir. Andrea James
U.S.A. 7 min.
Short narrative
Casting Pearls illustrates the difficulties transsexual women face in Hollywood via a hectic series of auditions endured by Cassandra, a transsexual actress (played by Calpernia Addams). Cassandra weathers the horrible, funny and cruel things said by various Hollywood professionals with plucky determination and professionalism, showing that decades of bias can
Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will screen four times at the Jacob Burns Film Center as part of Out at the Movies: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender films from May 15-28, 2008. Sponsored by Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan.
Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570
Sunday May 25 @ 4:45pm
Monday May 26 @ 7pm
Tuesday May 27 @ 6pm
Tuesday May 27 @ 7:55pm
Tickets are $6 for members, $10 for non-members.
It will screen with the transgender gospel documentary The Believers.
The Believers
May 25-27
“Engaging…might set more than a few conservative Christian mindsets reeling.” (Variety)
Full of rousing gospel music, The Believers profiles the award-winning Transcendence Gospel Choir, the world’s first transgender group of its kind. As we see and hear the chorus rise from shaky beginnings to its impressively polished presence today, we follow some of its members through their transformation and as they battle fears that changing one’s gender goes against the word of God. An illuminating portrait of the complex intersection between faith, gender identity, sexuality, and social justice. Directed by Todd Holland. 2006. 80 m. NR. US. Frameline.
with
Casting Pearls
A short comedy starring the incomparable Calpernia Addams as an actress on a hectic series of auditions. She’s bombarded by comments both funny and cruel, but she carries on, an example to transgender people everywhere. Directed by Andrea James. 2007. 7 m. NR. US. Frameline.
The Jacob Burns Film Center is a nonprofit cultural arts center dedicated to: presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world cinema; promoting visual literacy; and making film a vibrant part of the community.
To order tickets, please visit:
https://tickets.burnsfilmcenter.org/php/calendar.php
Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will screen as part of the 2008 Athens International Film and Video Festival.
Thursday 1 May 2008
7:00 PM
Baker Center Theater (second floor of Baker University Center)
All shows at Baker Center Theater are FREE!
One Park Place
Athens, OH 45701
Baker University Center Parking Garage is underground, at the lower entrance to the Center. There is also public metered parking adjacent to the upper entrance.
http://www.ohio.edu/center
The lineup for LGBT Visions 2 :
A Taste of Home
Dir. David Yun
U.S.A 7min
Short documentary
In A Taste of Home filmmaker David Yun attempts to reconcile the feelings of alienation he experienced while growing up in a suburban Detroit town with the emotions felt after returning home to care for his terminally ill mother. Combining landscape cinematography with a highly personal voiceover, A Taste of Home documents the filmmaker’s changing relationship with his hometown under these new sets of circumstances while relating to larger questions of identity and our always changing relationships to our familial and communal histories.Prada Handbag
Stuart Vauvert
Australia 22 min.
Short narrative
What’s a girl to do when a rare hair-loss condition leaves her with an obsession for zany wigs and make-up? Become a drag queen, of course! Prada Hamburg, child of the famous shoe designer, may not have any hair, but she does have a fabulous wig collection. Having always been an outsider, Prada finally finds her niche when she lands a job at a kooky drag bar full of colorful characters – a world of sequins, feathers and false eyelashes – and assumes the new identity of Prada Handbag.Members Only
Dir. Carolina Roca-Smith
U.S.A. 10 min.
Short narrative
Amy, the new kid in town, can’t seem to get a date
Deep Stealth Productions’ short film “Casting Pearls” will have its Toronto premiere in May 2008, as part of the Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival.
Directed by Andrea James, Casting Pearls illustrates the difficulties transsexual women face in Hollywood via a hectic series of auditions endured by Cassandra, a transsexual actress (played by Calpernia Addams). Cassandra weathers the horrible, funny and cruel things said by various Hollywood professionals with plucky determination and professionalism, showing that decades of bias can’t hold back the real contributions of transgender people to the arts and media.
Screening times will be posted when available.
Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival website:
http://www.insideout.on.ca/
